NEWS Plans To Sabotage Fishing Company Backfires As Sierra Leone Fishermen Union Shame Marine Minister Posted by on Feb 3, 2010, 16:54

She is the “black she-goat” of the APC party always painting the image of the party negatively to the public. From one ministry to another, leaving her trail behind that is far from emulation. At the Ministry of Energy and Power, She introduced and initiated scandals, which presented the ministry in a bad light to the public, despite the talk about meeting the energy demands of the people when the APC party assumed governance of the state. Hon. Afsatu Kabbah was a potential suspect of the Anti Corruption Commission, but let out of the hook because of political reason, which in no way means that she has immunity from prosecution against alleged corrupt practices and corruption.

Her departure from the Ministry of Energy and Power left a quarter, if not a dozen employees deprived of their professional service to the nation. Mr. Patrick Tarawallie, the Deputy General Manager of NPA was Hon. Afsatu Kabbah’s enemy because he failed to dance to her corrupt music tune and was victimized and till date suffering because of his non-compliant posture.

At the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Hon. Afsatu Kabbah continued her witch-hunt and victimization strategies against  employees who proved to be recalcitrant to her money making venture. Her first victim at the Fisheries Ministry was Alhaji Foud Sheriff, whom she cleverly sent on premature leave, to clear the way for her to dip and dive into the activities of Fishing Companies, intimidate its owners and extort money from them. Her thirst for money knows no limit and barrier, not even Authorities or friends as her mission must be fulfilled prior to 2012 when Sierra Leone will go into another Presidential and Parliamentary election.

The uncertainties that surround her reasoning, thoughts and convictions as to whether the APC party will continue occupying the driving seat of the state has driven her to force Fishing Companies to transform themselves into money making machines to be regularly producing money for her to accomplish her building project dream. Two massive building projects are ongoing, one at metchem in Goderich and the other at Femi Turner Drive near her old structure. These structures must be complete by owners of Fishing Companies; more specifically Okekey Fishing Agencies owned and operated by Ghanaian born Mrs. Lilian Lisk.

As she pounced on Patrick Tarawallie and Alhaji Foud Sheriff the same way she has pounced on the owner of the Okekey Fishing Company in order to meet her hungry- money- appetite. Ministry of Fisheries sources say the Minister has discovered that the Ghanaian Fish woman is a hard nut for her to crack after several meetings with her which proved unprofitable to her, but Minister Kabbah won’t relent as her motive is how she can squeeze money from her through whatever means available to her and one of it is by using her ministry and position as a Cabinet minister in the Ernest Koroma Government.

Yesterday’s plan to organise a protest march against the Okekey Fishing Company was aborted by some members of the Fishermen’s Union who had cleverly studied the behaviour of Hon. Afsatu Kabbah and arrived at the obvious conclusion that she wanted to use them to achieve her devilish plan. Fishermen from Tombo, Aberdeen and its environs were to assemble at Murray town where they would march to the city of Freetown with placards damning the Okekey Fishing Company, with the inscription that its owner is a lawless, recalcitrant and a disrespecter of laws and procedures laid down by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, but it turned out to be a disappointment for Minister Afsatu Kabbah when a statement by the Artisanal Fishermen Union, Tombo Branch was released in addition to another release issued out by the Union warning Mr. Ahmed Morlai Kamara to desist from his diabolical plan in support of the minister’s unpatriotic move to sabotage the effort of Fishing Companies and the Okekey Fishing Company.

As Hon. Kabbah is busy fighting the fish war, she has also initiated what could be referred to as PERMIT war with the Minister of Works, Mr. Philip Alimamy Koroma, whom it is reported has denied her a building permit to proceed with her building project on a piece of land, believed to have been acquired by her dubiously when she was Minister of Lands in the Tejan Kabbah SLPP Government.

A very prominent Civil Servant (name withheld) who worked with Hon. Afsatu Kabbah while she was Kabbah’s Minister of Lands and Country Planning reportedly explained that the piece of land claimed to have been acquired by the minister does not belong to her and that she used her position by then to acquire it “This piece of land belongs to a family and was forcefully removed from them by Minister Afsatu Kabbah” He  reportedly explained to the Minister of Works with all documentary evidence to buttress his explanation.